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@aberranthubris

[notsogroovy]

From http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/4078323.html?thread=1867307507#cmt1867307507

Now that's not true. You have people who love you. More than you know.

...

What about Moira?

[Sure. Moira.]

[aberranthubris]

Yes, yes I do have people who love me. We've become a big family together. That is what I mean. I doubt there is much room for romance in my life.

Moira included. Did you know she was married? Happily, I think. And she now has a son.

I was glad to see her. But she could never be part of our lives the way it is shaping up to be.

[notsogroovy]

A happily married woman who now remembers her life with you in it.

Besides, if anyone deserves love, it's you. You're the best of us.

[Maybe not always the right one, but certainly the best.]

[aberranthubris]

Yes, she does, and I'm sure she'll make the adult decisions about it that we both agree she should make.

Don't be silly, Raven. Everyone deserves love. And I'm definitely not without faults.

[notsogroovy]

I know all about your faults. But, out of all of us, you have the most hope. Sometimes you even manage to bully the rest of us into it, too.

[aberranthubris]

Still, doesn't mean I deserve any better.

[notsogroovy]

And if there was any reason to believe you grew out of being an idiot, you just confirmed that you haven't. Of course you deserve better.

[aberranthubris]

I'm truly glad that you think I'm a good human being but I would never see myself above you or anyone else.

[notsogroovy]

All of us deserve better. It's just that some of us had it,
even if it was only for a little while.

[aberranthubris]

Yes, we all do. You do as well. Perhaps we can work towards giving each other what we deserve in the future.

[notsogroovy]

...I don't think you mean that how it sounds, Charles. If we follow the thread that what we deserve are happy relationships. Romantic relationships.

[aberranthubris]

I'm sorry, yes, of course, you're right. I didn't mean to suggest that we enter some strange polyamory relationship.

What I tried to suggest is that we can try to be better for one another in whatever way we want to relate to each other.

[notsogroovy]

No, I'm still misunderstanding you.

[Had to be because he couldn't be suggesting what she thought he was suggesting.]

[aberranthubris]

Are you? Please explain how you manage that?

[ Shaking his head in fond amusement here. ]

[notsogroovy]

Because it still sounds like...

[No, she can't even say it.]

[aberranthubris]

 Sounds like what?

 [ Confused now. ]

[notsogroovy]

Like you're suggesting that you and I...

[Are you really going to make her say it, Charles?]

[aberranthubris]

 Raven, what is it? You and I ...?

 [ She's never this hesitant about anything. What's up? ]

[notsogroovy]

[She's going to kill you in your sleep.]

It sounds like you're suggesting we help each other out. In a very non-platonic way.

[aberranthubris]

 Oh. Did It? I'm so sorry, Raven. That must have been disturbing.

 [ So violent. He's just a harmless telepath... ]

[notsogroovy]

[Harmless? Don't make her laugh.]

Upsetting. Sure.

[For some definition of the word.]

Why don't you tell me what you actually meant?

[aberranthubris]

Let's just forget romance and dating and everything related to that for a moment. I don't know about you, but it has never worked for me. And currently I'm more challenged than I ever was on that arena. I merely tried to say that I love you and that you're more important to me than any flimsy romantic relationship could ever be. I hope I never hurt you again, like I did all those years ago. That is what I wanted to say.

[notsogroovy]

First of all, it never worked for you because you were never serious about it. You always had a girl of the night. I was the only one who ever seemed to stick around and that was because you'd adopted me.

And...yes. It did work for me. For a little while. And then he got arrested and it got complicated.

[Erik, of course.]

And you only hurt me because I let you. It's not your fault that you didn't see me the way I wanted you to.

[aberranthubris]

 You were a grown woman and I was treating you like a little girl. That's on me, Raven.

[notsogroovy]

Yes, you were. And I'm not ignoring your part in it. But the point is that I was letting you. Or if not always, at least acting the part when I was trying to get you to stop. I doubt many 'grown women' sprawl across men to get them to see them as adult. ...okay,
maybe they do, but not in the day I did it.